why did it take so long to invent stuff?

wise words

everyone was on the dole before then

The wheel was always with us if you think about it throw a stone and it rolls its always been there

the computer age

when was the wheel invented?

i mean that shape has always been in the sky

a) people didn't live so long - 40 was a v good age
b) most of the time was spent just surviving. only ther idle rich could spend time musing

what would be all doing if befair was never thought up

population was also a lot less too

8 times as many people now on earth than in 1750

the increase since 1999 has been bigger than the total population back then

Mass literacy and an increase in leisure led to a massive leap in technology. Before that, most people had neither the time nor the understanding to invent something complex then communicate the idea to others.

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People were thick back then .Its only since about 1957 that folk have been walking upright.


Good quesion anyway ,Canary

Things will start to stagnate now that the general population is getting thicker again .

I think we reached an intelligence peak around 1980

Aqueducts?

billkiller got it i think

nearly everything been in the last 150 years or so

apart from beer

wtf was everyone doing before that

were they all drunk or something

because for millions of years were stupid hominids roaming the earth... then the visitors from other planets came and helped us along...

joe rogan said it best " humans are stupid, if i left you alone in the woods with just an hatchet, how long before you could send me an email??"

heres the clip... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf8R5ZlDiJg

cant see how pyramids or pc's can be from technology of this earth

people are no more intelligent now than they were in 20,000 BC

technological progress is an incremental process with people building on the knowledge of previous generations

industrial revolution innit.

its a question that will be asked ad infinitum until eternity ceases

Because people spent most of their time foragin' , feedin' , f.uckin' and fightin' .
whereas nowadays they-
oh , hang on .......

Most inventions saved time. Time which made it possible for later generations to invent new stuff which saved even more time.

Hope this helps

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There are more people alive today than have ever been buried.